visti@SAUNA.HUT.FI (Hannu Visti) (12/12/90)
I compiled and installed emacs-18.55 to a personal iris (irix 3.3.1). Installation went normally, but this emacs cannot handle my .emacs-file, it complains "error in init file" everytime I start it. If I take .emacs to a buffer and eval it, it works normally. My homedirectory is NFS-mounted, and the same .emacs works normally with the same emacs-version in suns and sonys. The emacs in the iris rejects also other users' elisp files, not only mine, and the problem has occurred in all SGI-machines I know. any ideas? /hv
laplante@ocgy.ubc.ca (Denis Laplante (guest)) (12/14/90)
In article <9012120820.AA01430@cs.hut.fi>, visti@SAUNA.HUT.FI (Hannu Visti) writes: > > I compiled and installed emacs-18.55 to a personal iris (irix 3.3.1). > Installation went normally, but this emacs cannot handle my .emacs-file, > it complains "error in init file" everytime I start it. > I fixed that problem by making sure that /etc/passwd on every machine contained my name. It would appear that the YP version of passwd is not consulted when looking for ~/.emacs . I placed the redundant entries after the '+' entry, so that those programs making normal use of YP will get the YP version. Most likely there is a better way to fix this at compile time.
dprmjc@inetg1.Arco.Com (M. J. Cole) (12/14/90)
In article <9012120820.AA01430@cs.hut.fi>, visti@SAUNA.HUT.FI (Hannu Visti) writes: > > I compiled and installed emacs-18.55 to a personal iris (irix 3.3.1). > ... > it complains "error in init file" everytime I start it. > Are you using Yellow Pages (YP)? I encountered this problem when we installed YP. Try relinking with the library : -lsun. See the (3Y) section of the man pages for intro(3). If this doesn't work, create a "dummy" entry at the bottom of the password file. Like so... root:XXXX:0:0:Super-User:/:/bin/csh .. .. lots of entries .. +::0:0:: dprmjc:XXXX:8888:42:M. J. Cole, PRC-D3234, 754-6857:/usr/people/dprmjc:/bin/csh -- ............................................................................... Mary J. Cole ARCO Oil & Gas Company mjcole@arco.com 2300 W. Plano Parkway; PRC-D3239; (214)754-6857 Plano, TX 75075 ...............................................................................